Lost at night in an immense forest, I only have a small light to guide me. A man appears who tells me: "My friend, blow out your c...andle in order to find your way." This man is a theologian.The sea, fluid garden filled with animals and plants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,And the women come out to cut up what remains,...Jest roll to your rifle an' blow out your brainsAn' go to your Gawd like a soldier.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Where two raging fires meet together,They do consume the thing that feeds their fury....Though little fire grows great with little wind,Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

And where two raging fires meet together;They do consume the thing that feeds their fury....Though little fire grows great with little wind,Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the fac...e. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said "Box about: 'twill come to my father anon."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The great leading distinction between writing and speaking is, that more time is allowed for the one than the other, and hence dif...ferent faculties are required for, and different objects attained by each. He is properly the best speaker who can collect together the greatest number of apposite ideas at a moment's warning; he is properly the best writer who can give utterance to the greatest quantity of valuable knowledge in the course of his whole life. The chief requisite for the one, then, appears to be quickness and facility of perception--for the other, patience of soul and a power increasing with the difficulties it has to master. He cannot be denied to be an expert speaker, a lively companion, who is never at a loss for something to say on every occasion or subject that offers. He, by the same rule, will make a respectable writer who, by dint of study, can find out anything good to say upon any one point that has not yet been touched upon before, or who by asking for time, can give the most complete and comprehensive view of any question. The one must be done off-hand, at a single blow; the other can only be done by a repetition of blows, by having time to think and do better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

They say the sea is cold, but the sea containsthe hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent....

All the whales in the wider deeps, hot are they, as they urgeon and on, and dive beneath the icebergs.The right whales, the sperm-whales, the hammer-heads, the killersthere they blow, there they blow, hot wild white breath out of thesea!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond t...he bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »